Development Nepal’s Vision
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Sumit Pokhrel

 

Development Nepal

Development and Stability
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About Us

Development Nepal

 

Development Nepal is a steadily growing web-based journal that aims at disseminating researches, opinions and experience which have a “development” and Nepal focus.  Currently limited on the web, it aims to grow gradually to an interactive forum for researchers and practitioners engaged in Nepal’s development, both online and offline. Since its launching in 2002, twenty issues of Development Nepal have been published covering a wide range of work such as thesis, dissertations, interviews, articles and field based researches.  Needless to mention there are hundreds of Nepal focused researches being conducted—both inside and outside of Universities around the world, that need to be shared.

 

What is Development Nepal for?

 

Development Nepal’s current aims are:  (1) disseminating outcomes of these researches and (2) bringing together interested researchers to share their work on Nepal to a larger audience.  In future, Development Nepal also plans to help improve the quality of social science research performed by graduate students in Nepal.  Further, it will also attempt for collaboration/networking between professionals and researchers working in the field of social and developmental issues in Nepal.  Development Nepal will thus continue to grow as a repository for Nepal focused social and developmental researches as well as form a loose network of interested practitioners and researchers.   

 

Areas of focus

 

Education; gender; society; energy; environment; politics; non-state actors; religion; population; decentralization; development; violent internal conflict; general conflict; foreign aid; humanitarian aid; others.

 

Audience

 

The website receives about 14 unique visitors (not page hits) each day and the total number of such visitors was approaching 13000(as of May 2007).  Development Nepal is periodically dispatched to over 1000 readers.   The site is also listed by few other reputed websites such as www.nepalresearch.org and http://www.kantipuronline.com/nepalimedia.php.  Given the specific focus of the website, the traffic to the site is expected to increase slowly, but at a steady pace.

How can you help?

 

· By sharing with us your research for publication.

· By agreeing to give us interviews.

· By writing columns in Nepali or in English.

· By sending your experience from the field.

· By joining Development Nepal as an associate.

 

 

Amod Pokhrel

 

*In future, Development Nepal will conduct seminar/discussion programs before the publication of some of its issues.  Further, the scope for having online discussion blogs will be assessed.

 

*Currently, Development Nepal does not pay any compensation to contributions, nor does it make any financial gains.